Iraq inspections: Week three

Inspectors check a missile plant in al-Khadra

BBC News Online looks back at the first three weeks of weapons inspections in Iraq.

Tuesday 17 December

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) travelled to Mosul, about 400 km (250 miles) north of Baghdad.

A biological weapons team also headed for Mosul to inspect a pharmaceutical factory.

Inspectors must decide what is being produced in Iraq's factories

Biological inspectors also visited Baghdad University, while other IAEA experts went to a suspect site at Radwan, in the Abu Ghurayb area, about 15 km (nine miles) west of Baghdad.

Chemical weapons inspectors travelled to a site at Dijla, north east of the capital.

Missile experts returned to the al-Sawari factory, owned by the Industry Ministry, at Taji, about 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad.

Monday 16 December

A team of missile inspectors visited the Sa'ad General Company, owned by Iraq's Military Industrialisation Corporation in central Baghdad.

A second team inspected the al-Sawari fibreglass factory in Taji.

Biological weapons inspectors visited Baghdad University's Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering at al-Jadiriya in the capital.

Guards have complied with the inspections so far

The same team also visited the al-Amiriyah Serum and Vaccine Institute in the capital.

Chemical weapons inspectors checked the al-Nassir al-Atheen State Company in Baghdad.

An IAEA team visited several plants at al-Qa qa, a large industrial complex about 30 km (19 miles) south of Baghdad. These facilities produce and test small rockets and munitions for the Iraqi army.

Other IAEA inspectors conducted a joint visit with the Unmovic missile team of the Sa'ad General Company.

Sunday 15 December

Inspectors from the IAEA visited the Um al-Maarek (Mother of All Battles) military complex at Yusufiya, about 15 km south of Baghdad.

United Nations experts inspected the al-Qa qa factory, which produces explosives for ammunition, about 40 km south of the capital.

UN inspectors also visited the al-Nasr plant, which allegedly produces Scud missile components, in Taji.

Another team travelled to the Mu'tassim missile plant in Jurf al-Sakr, 40 km south of the capital.

Saturday 14 December

Weapons inspectors paid another visit to the Centre for Communicable Diseases in Baghdad.

A separate team travelled to the al-Fateh company, which produces missiles in al-Khadra, 10 km west of the capital.

Another group spent two hours inside a walled compound in the al-Amiriyah residential area in Baghdad, apparently home to a missile research unit.

IAEA experts also returned to the headquarters of Iraq's nuclear research programme at Tuwaitha, 20 km south of the capital.

Friday 13 December

A team of inspectors visited Ibn al-Haitham, a suspected missile research facility, in northern Baghdad.

Another team examined the Centre for the Control of Communicable Diseases, run by Iraq's Health Ministry, in Baghdad.

Other inspectors checked a pesticide storage facility at al Mussaib in Baghdad.

IAEA experts also took samples of water, sediment and vegetation from three sites close to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Thursday 12 December

Experts from IAEA inspected the al-Nidaa plant in Zafaraniyah in south-west Baghdad.

Other inspectors from the IAEA and UN monitoring and verification team Unmovic visited a disused factory near Suweirah, 60 km (37 miles) south east of the capital.

Missile experts examined a test facility at Ramadia, about 120 km north-west of Baghdad.

Nuclear inspectors returned to the Ibn Sina plant, once used to enrich uranium, 40 km north of Baghdad.

They also visited the Mu'tassim factory in Jurf al-Sakr south of the capital.

Another team travelled to the al-Rasheed factory near Baghdad, once a key uranium enrichment facility.

Wednesday 11 December

UN experts examined a site at Taji, 10 km north of Baghdad. The facility, owned by the Karamah Public Company, has in the past been linked to Iraq's biological weapons programme.

Iraq inspections: Week two
(4 - 10 December)

Iraq inspections: Week one
(27 November - 3 December)